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pinchan plushies being sold at jump festa 2025 🫶

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jjk manga spoilers

while i agree with the criticism that yuta shouldve gotten consequences for going into gojo's body, i dont think that "acting like nothing happened" is meant to be the theme of chapter 269 - i'd argue it's more abt the characters mentally processing the sukuna fight and the resulting guilt from the actions they should've taken (even if played in a comedic way for yuta's case; unfortunately there wouldn't have been many pages left to explore that), as well as the adults acknowledging that the teens arent responsible for what happened and trying to support them better in the wake of a crumbling jujutsu society (kusakabe mentioning his earlier stance of being pro-execution in order to empathise with yuji, mei mei wiping out the clan head for stealing the lifespans of new shadow style users which would've included her little brother). so that at least is a step taken forward in bringing about reformation and breaking the cycle.

Yuta, Gojo, Geto, and does the end justify the means?

[spoilers up until JJK 269]

I've seen a post floating around about what the point of Yuta overtaking Gojo's body was, and since I haven't seen many people interpret it the way I have, I wanted to take a minute to talk about it.

First of all, I do think Gege had several reasons to do it, one of them being to give the answer to the "are you Gojo Satoru because you're the strongest or are you the strongest because you're Gojo Satoru". However, while many people tend to center that idea, it's only one aspect of it for me.

I'm also of the mind that part of it was telling the fans that nah, he really really wasn't coming back (don't necessarily assign malice to it, but yeah I think it was part of the point). That being said, there is an argument to be made that it was foreshadowed in chapter 90 by Kenjaku, so I don't think that was solely the point and Gege might have had this planned for a lot longer.

However, for me, it's not so much about the battle or about the plot, but rather about the themes it sets in place for the story, and these themes have been present for a while in Jujutsu Kaisen.

At the heart of it is, essentially, "does the end justify the means?"

That's a big theme in the manga as a whole, I'd argue. It's at the heart of the Geto thing ("does saving the lives of sorcerers justify killing every single non-sorcerer") in particular. It's behind most of the higher-ups' actions, though their 'ends' don't appear to be altruistic. It's also a question Gojo usually refuses to answer, or tentatively says "no" to — in refusing to kill Yuuji, Yuta, in protecting Hakari, and probably plenty of people before them. He does end up playing in that game, though, when he kills the higher-ups — deciding that the end might justify the means, a gamble he hadn't always thought worth taking until then. [This is my read on Gojo, but it's open to interpretation]

(I can't be brief to save my life so I'm putting the rest of this Very Long Post under the cut)

We see this not so much with the fight, but mostly in the conversations we see Yuta having in chapter 261, before taking Gojo's body. That's the whole point of the debate they're all having. Yuta is arguing that you have to do whatever to win against Sukuna,

while others, Kusakabe and Maki in particular, have their reservations. [Which is interesting considering Kusakabe does think that killing Yuuji to kill Sukuna was warranted, shows that values are complicated things]

Yuta's whole speech is about, really, the fact that you have to do whatever you can do, no matter what that is, to win. No matter whether or not you destroy yourself as a person, no matter how heinous it is, if it gets a win, it needs to be done.

There's something a little self-sacrificial, self-martyrdom, lowkey suicidal about it too imo but that's besides the point (not necessarily a criticism of Yuta btw, think it makes him more interesting and gives him a lot of depth).

Anyway, back to the point: Yuta is emphatically saying, yes, the end justifies the means. That was also what the fandom was saying when the chapter was coming out, actually. I saw a lot of the argument that it was 'not realistic' for them not to do that, and that 'this was a war and yes, it's horrible, but war is horrible', etc, etc.

Now at that point, I was seething in my small corner of the Internet because from the moment that conversation was had, I needed Yuta to lose, because I fucking hated the message it would give if he won. This is, admittedly, a deeply subjective thing — it's a personal and political opinion, and everyone's going to have their own, but as far as I'm concerned, it would have been awful. At that point I was still really worried that the story was going to go full grimdark and I would have hated it if the last message we got was that renouncing all your values is justified in war if it gets you a win.

Anyway, we all know this by now, but that's not what happened.

Geto, who ended up renouncing even his own values by attacking sorcerers in the name of building his perfect world, loses to the love that Yuta has for Maki and Rika in particular, two non-sorcerers.

And Sukuna loses, not to a Kamo, a Zen'in or a Gojo, not even to the descendant of the big three vengeful spirits, all of whom have sacrificed so much of their values to get to the level of power they have, but to a no-name kid who doesn't even have a cursed technique armed with the power of love and friendship. (Not mocking this btw, thrilled about it) Just as importantly, Yuuji has done the very opposite of abandoning his values: he's fought to keep them until the very end. Even at the very end, he offers Sukuna a hand, because his main value is not to kill people, unless absolutely necessary.

Meanwhile, Yuta going into Gojo's body gets him nothing. He's committed the abominable, and it's not a decisive move against Sukuna. He's gone against some very general human values — anyone can see why what he's done is fucked up (and I can't pinpoint it precisely but I'd argue that there's a parallel between that and him cursing Rika) — and it gets him nothing. Even if it had gotten him somewhere, there was another way. A way that didn't involve that.

So that, to me, is the point of Yuta taking over Gojo's body: no, you can't just do anything to win a battle, and yes, you can refuse to do certain sacrifices and succeed. Don't abandon the things you hold dear. You can lose, but you can also still prevail, Jujutsu Kaisen says in the end.

Now for the more critical part of this broadcast, while I do think this aspect is why Gege chose to have that happen, I 100% find that chapter 269 and the complete lack of consequences the action ends up carrying really really cheapens it. Everyone was up in arms about it at first, and then Yuta comes back and we act like nothing's happened? I mean it's a theme of the chapter for sure, acting like nothing's happened that is, but it still sucks.

I think that's partly why Maki is mad at Yuta in chapter 269, considering she was the one who was most strongly against the idea, but it's not brought up explicitly. It's completely incomprehensible to me that Gege thought the chapter would be better used talking about how they could have acted differently and that whole New Shadow Style school thing than dealing with the consequences of the characters' actions that he'd prepared earlier, but whatever.

So in the end, while it was an interesting point to bring to the story, it was not used to its full potential. In a story that's all about breaking cycles, it's a shame that there wasn't more light shed on how people kept repeating the same mistake.

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I want this one double action figure of Satoru and Suguru

BUT with this version of Kenjaku and Takaba instead

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I've only submitted an ask about my lovely incredible wife Justice here but since you're retiring (Godspeed & have fun) I guess I'll say something about my interesting and strange husband..?

I really like Robo Ky and while I realize every iteration of him besides X+ and the tangerine side story + XRD aren't confirmed to be the same robot, I think it does a disservice to his character to state that he was never the person we see in XX or Accent Core? There's a very strong character thread throughout all his appearances and iterations. The Tangerine story even canonizes how he acts in Accent Core.

It just feels like people are ignoring large parts of his personality in order to not deal with the fact that a dude who genuinely kinda sucked to be around is nonetheless a compelling person and became a better person...?

There's genuinely some great character depth in Accent Core even if you just look at the text (his constant hatred of "the original"), without even covering what's below it (how Crow seems to be bored of him, moving on to newer more exciting projects (Robotemkin, the Justice copies, trying to get Dizzy...)), and I think people do themselves a disservice by ignoring that game when writing him.

Also, he's so cute in XX. People rarely talk about AC Robo Ky but they never talk about XX Robo Ky. He's so silly. They reused the same background of him for both Faust's ending and Potemkins ending, did you know? He could brainwash people. It only worked on idiots (exaggerating for comedic effect). And still, I can see the character thread that came from X+ and continued into AC and beyond into XRD... (Though that's probably just my imagination. I doubt the writers thought that hard about him.)

Anyway, I really like Robo Ky. He's not underrated but I think people ignore a lot of his character. Which sucks. Also I really like my beautiful wife Justice I just froth at the mouth whenever I try to talk about her.

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Bothersome beast, comforting friend

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happy valentine ^_^

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do i ship these characters or do i want them to form a sketch comedy duo

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*Insert whistle noises*

Sorry for putting that Josh Hutcherson meme in your face, but I liked the rendering I did.

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Poll idea I had but don't have the GG themed blog for: how many Guilty Gear fans are also JoJo fans? The options could be something like:

Have never heard of/seen anything from JJBA

Have seen a little of JJBA but didn't enjoy it

Casual fan of JJBA

As into JJBA as GG

JJBA got me into GG or vice versa

Someone reblogged something from me once and tagged it with "I can tell OP has never watched Jojo's because [something about classic rock-themed character names]" and I'm still thinking about it

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A collection or somethin B^]

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Congratulations, Emmet!

You have been named the Best Train Conductor of All Time!

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orthworm in the subway where will he go

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Why was Ingo chosen instead of Emmet?

I had an idea why Ingo was the one chosen by Game Freak to be sent into the past. I told my friend @lovelyblep​​ about it and they told me to put it here on tumblr. Have fun reading it (and sorry for grammar and spelling mistakes):

Keep reading

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strong coffee and a mild electric shock makes bad mornings better

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Emmetober Prompt #2: Clowns

you can fight clowns on the battle subway and the train conductors are also clowns, clearly gear station should be renamed to gear circus

i hc that emmet can juggle and ingo can make balloon animals (pokemon?)